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creditor

   Also found in: Medical, Legal, Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.02 sec.
cred·i·tor  (krd-tr)
n.
One to whom money or its equivalent is owed.

creditor [ˈkrɛdɪtə]
n
(Business / Commerce) a person or commercial enterprise to whom money is owed Compare debtor
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.creditor - a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
mortgage holder, mortgagee - the person who accepts a mortgage; "the bank became our mortgagee when it accepted our mortgage on our new home"
debitor, debtor - a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt
Translations
creditor [ˈkredɪtəʳ] Nacreedor(a) m/f
creditor [ˈkrɛdɪtər] ncréancier/ière m/f
credit rating nindice m de solvabilité
credit risk n (= person) → emprunteur/euse m/f à risque
credit side n
on the credit side [balance sheet] → au crédit
on the credit side, ... (= as an advantage) → l'avantage, c'est que ...
credit slip (US) navoir m
credit transfer nvirement m
creditor
nGläubiger m
creditor [ˈkrɛdɪtəʳ] ncreditore/trice
creditor [ˈkrɛdɪtəʳ] ncreditore/trice


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Once in every decade there shall be a general settlement, when the balance due shall be paid to the creditor nation in Mexican dollars.
He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor.
Chadband's habit--it is the head and front of his pretensions indeed--to keep this sort of debtor and creditor account in the smallest items and to post it publicly on the most trivial occasions.
 
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